GMail users get 'snooze' feature

Gmail users swamped with new mail can now put some of their mails on "snooze," archiving them and letting them show up in the inbox as "new" a few days later. In a blog post, software engineer Corey Goldfeder said this was one of the features many Gmail users had been asking for. "Snoozing means archiving an email for now, but having it automatically reappear in the inbox at some specified time in the future. With Apps Script you can extend Gmail to add this functionality and a lot more yourself," he said. But this is one feature they have to set up themselves. He said one can set up the feature by writing a script, using Google Docs to edit it. The script will create the necessary labels in Gmail, he added. A Gmail user can "snooze" an email or a thread by using Gmail’s “Move To" button to moving the thread into the "Snooze for X days" label and archive it. "Every night, threads will move up through one day of the queue, and at the appointed number of days they will reappear in your inbox, unarchived," he said. He also said one can edit the Apps Script, including changing snooze times or for unsnoozed messages to get starred. "And if you have an even better idea for how to use Apps Script to improve Gmail, you can post it to our Gallery (Script Editor > Share > Publish Project) to share with the world," he said. — TJD, GMA News